St. Andrew AME Church
St. Andrew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 12517 Linwood Avenue in Detroit, MI 48238. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 7 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
12517 Linwood Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48238St. Andrew AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around St. Andrew AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Food Insecurity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 35.8% (19.4–52.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (0.1–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near St. Andrew AME Church
- New Greater First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Original Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Prince of Peace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Catherine's Temple Prophecy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter's Holiness Church of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Mission Revelation Pillar of Fire Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- William Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Paul AME Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke Church — 1.1 mi away in Highland Park, MI
- Berea Saint Paul's United Methodist Church of Highland Park — 1.6 mi away in Highland Park, MI
- Hamlett Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Saint John's Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away